The Latest in Brainwave Sychronization With External Rhythmic Stimuli
Shoot…. Every time you think you know what's going on, something NEW pops up!
Let me start with the old: brainwave entrainment.
Know how when you go to a live concert you kind of get hypnotized by the music? It could also happen with a good stereo, but generally when the stereo is on you are doing something else as well, like driving, or cleaning the house, so it isn't as noticeable. But at a concert you aren't doing anything but being at the concert, and within a few minutes your mind and body fall into the rhythm and beat of the music. Doesn't life seem good when that happens? Don't you feel energized, connected? Doesn't the limit of possibility seem to expand?
That is a example of brainwave entrainment. Your own brainwave frequencies start synchronizing to the rhythm and beat of the music, the external rhythmic stimuli. The researchers call that Frequency Following Response: FFR.
The first recorded instance of FFR was in 1656. Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist, was trying to develop a more accurate clock. He placed two unsynchronized pendulum clocks on a wall next to each other. What he noticed was that the two clocks slowly synchronized to each other, and the synchronization was so accurate that even mechanical intervention could not synchronize them better. It was later discovered that entrainment is a principle in all of nature, as evidenced in chemistry, physics, and biology.
Needless to say the researchers found a way to use that principle, to quantify the frequency following response, and to simulate it in order to enhance various human needs. They use what they call binaural beats to create relaxation, meditation, creativity, learning, lessening of negativity, increase in sense of possibility.
When the principle of FFR was applied to human brainwaves in a scientific manner it seemed like the ultimate self-development tool. It didn't seem that life could get better for those of us struggling to develop our potential. But life DID just get better!
Researchers have now imaged and recorded the brainwaves of intellectual and creative geniuses. And those brainwaves are available for anyone to follow and synchronize with!
To find out more see http://www.fun2bmom.com
Let me start with the old: brainwave entrainment.
Know how when you go to a live concert you kind of get hypnotized by the music? It could also happen with a good stereo, but generally when the stereo is on you are doing something else as well, like driving, or cleaning the house, so it isn't as noticeable. But at a concert you aren't doing anything but being at the concert, and within a few minutes your mind and body fall into the rhythm and beat of the music. Doesn't life seem good when that happens? Don't you feel energized, connected? Doesn't the limit of possibility seem to expand?
That is a example of brainwave entrainment. Your own brainwave frequencies start synchronizing to the rhythm and beat of the music, the external rhythmic stimuli. The researchers call that Frequency Following Response: FFR.
The first recorded instance of FFR was in 1656. Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist, was trying to develop a more accurate clock. He placed two unsynchronized pendulum clocks on a wall next to each other. What he noticed was that the two clocks slowly synchronized to each other, and the synchronization was so accurate that even mechanical intervention could not synchronize them better. It was later discovered that entrainment is a principle in all of nature, as evidenced in chemistry, physics, and biology.
Needless to say the researchers found a way to use that principle, to quantify the frequency following response, and to simulate it in order to enhance various human needs. They use what they call binaural beats to create relaxation, meditation, creativity, learning, lessening of negativity, increase in sense of possibility.
When the principle of FFR was applied to human brainwaves in a scientific manner it seemed like the ultimate self-development tool. It didn't seem that life could get better for those of us struggling to develop our potential. But life DID just get better!
Researchers have now imaged and recorded the brainwaves of intellectual and creative geniuses. And those brainwaves are available for anyone to follow and synchronize with!
To find out more see http://www.fun2bmom.com
